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Wernher, Beit & Co., Case papers

  • ZA HPRA A612
  • Fonds
  • 1901-1902

Case papers from the K.B. division in the High Court of Justice and H.M. Court of Appeal (England) in the House of Lords relating to the claim for damages brought by Wernher Beit & Co. against Arthur Basil Markham 1901-1902. 6 items printed.

The action was one of slander arising out of a speech made by Markham in which he accused Wernher, Beit & Co., of being 'thieves and swindlers'. Subsequently he tried to produce evidence that there had been bribery and corruption in the company's dealings with the South African Republic and that the company had helped to incite the Jameson Raid for their own ends.

Webber Wentzel, Labour Law records

  • ZA HPRA A3434
  • Fonds
  • 1970s-1990s

The collection contains material relating to: the labour and industrial law, trade unions matters and labour movement in South Africa, collective bargaining, employment, manpower training and major developments in the South African economy. Records include: papers from the labour and industrial relations conferences, documents on trade unions activities and publications.

Webber Wentzel

Walter Max Sisulu and 19 Others

  • ZA HPRA A2775
  • Fonds
  • 1952

This collection contains the Trial records of Regina vs WM Sisulu and 19 others in the Johannesburg Magistrates Court, August 1952. Also included: Preparatory examination in the Treason Trial.

Walter Hume Long, Correspondence

  • ZA HPRA A1442
  • Fonds
  • 1900 - 1903

R. Hon. Walter Hume Long, 1st Viscount, 1854-1924 (British Member of Parliament and Privy Councillor).

Anglo-Boer War Letters.
Letters to W.H. Long from, amongst others, his son Captain Walter (Toby) Long (1879-1912), Colonel R. Chaloner and Major Harry Scobell, describing skirmishes with the Boers in the Transvaal and the Cape and the Kimberley engagement in which Walter Long was wounded. Includes letters from Walter written from India, 1909-1910, and Canada, 1910.

Walter George Amos Mears, Abstracts and copies of documents

  • ZA HPRA A607
  • Fonds
  • 1800s-1900s

Abstracts of letters, bills, petitions, legal and shipping documents. The letters are addressed mainly to John Fairbairn and relate to Cape politics, so called “Kaffir” Wars, 1820 settlers and anti-convict agitation. Names of other correspondents include A.G. Bain, J. Bell, J.C. Chase, W. Ellis, J. Holland, J. Montagu, J. Philip, J. Read, Sir R. Southey, W.S. van Ryneveld and Sir J. Wylde.

Copies of 6 letters, 1825-1829, on the freedom of the press between J. Fairbairn, G. Greig, W. Greig, R.W. Hay, J. Hume, R. Plasket, T. Pringle and Lord C.H. Somerset.

Voortrekkers, Reminiscences

  • ZA HPRA A156
  • Fonds
  • 1914

Statements made by Hans Naudé of Drupfontein, P.K. Clarens, District Bethlehem (in Afrikaans, 9p.) and by L.J. Nel, 'Welgegund', near Greytown, Natal (Afrikaans, 16p., English, 17p). on the Great Trek and the Battle of Blood River.

Voortrekkers, Poems

  • ZA HPRA A316
  • Fonds
  • undated

Bears the inscription 'Na Mijn doot Behorend Aan Mijn dogter Debora Johanna Retief Den Boek Francois Retief.'

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